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How to use plover in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun, verb

Plover means any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae. Example: “Plover egging was once a popular tradition.”

Examples of plover by meaning

verbTo dote over, or, crowd or nestle with.

  • Invisible twine plying merchants are unravelling the long grasses and the plovering pull of the long windstrewngrasses pluck the prince in his chest his heart his passion and love as if no tomorrow.1997, Barry MacSweeney, The Book of Demons, page 107
  • I would blanch, I would quail and, maybe in that season, I would have plovered — plovered my head deep into my feathers and plovered away on thin, wading bird's legs.2000, Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe's Pussy: Growing Up in Front of the Telly, page 144
  • Our Dove's a fat man's tits plovering a T - shirt;2002, Calvin Bedient, The Violence of the Morning: Poems, page 42

verbTo hunt for plover.

  • Brisler went Yesterday a plovering with a Party who killed about an hundred.1962, Diary and Autobiography of John Adam, page 244

verbTo wade along the shore, examining the sand like a plover does.

  • Men with nothing to do plovered the sand - edge with clam rakes that raked nothing.1971, John Ciardi, Lives of X., page 50
  • Blathwyte indicates the scale of another population of waders through recording an annual crop of 250 Lapwing eggs Vanellus vanellus being taken by 'plovering' gamekeepers.2021, Clive Chatters, Heathland
  • If we can let the plovers do their plovering thing, then perhaps, instead of rejecting our human weirdnesses, we embrace them.2021, Jeffrey Cohen, Stephanie Foote, The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities, page 282

More sentences with plover

  • Plover egging was once a popular tradition.From the entry egging
  • Upland sandpipers are also sometimes called upland plovers or Bartram's sandpipers.2010, Mary Elizabeth Salzmann, Albatross to Zebra Finch: Birds from A to Z, page 24. From the entry Bartram's sandpiper
  • A ravanastron hung, on the wall, from a nail, like a plover.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry ravanastron
  • My nephew wounded a plover and as it was only slightly hurt, he tethered it with a string under the house.1919, William Beebe, quoting Edgar Beckett, “Field Notes on the Lizards of Kartabo, British Guiana, and Caripito, Venezuela. Part 3.…. From the entry salipenter
  • He saw a spur-winged plover grubbing on a little mudberg and his eyes told him the mudberg moved when the bird screeched, flew, became a mote.2013, Jonathan Meades, Pompey, →ISBN. From the entry -berg
  • “Each time the golden plover moved, its dunlin attendant followed, but when the goldie flew off to land on a wooden post, it triggered a bizarre cameo.2005, Mark Cocker, Richard Mabey, Birds Britannica. From the entry goldie
  • Plovers and lapwings are a large, virtually worldwide family that differs from sandpipers in, among other things, having a shorter, thicker, pigeonlike bill and more robust proportions.1986, Steven L. Hilty, Bill Brown, A Guide to the Birds of Colombia, page 149. From the entry lapwing

Meaning of plover

  1. noun Any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.
  2. noun A masked lapwing (Vanellus miles).
  3. verb To dote over, or, crowd or nestle with.

Full definition of plover

Questions about plover in a sentence

How do you use plover in a sentence?
Plover is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Plover egging was once a popular tradition.”
What is a short sentence with plover?
“Plover egging was once a popular tradition.”
What does plover mean?
Plover means any of various wading birds of the subfamily Charadriinae.

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